India: After a fireworks ban was widely disregarded for raucous celebrations of the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, India’s capital, New Delhi, was enveloped in poisonous smog on Friday. Over 30 million people live in New Delhi’s congested streets, which are regularly ranked among the world’s most polluted urban areas. Each year, factories, traffic fumes, and stubble burning by farmers in neighboring regions to prepare their fields for plowing—all of which contribute to the city’s cancer-causing acrid smog—are to blame. However, despite the city’s ban on their sale and use a month ago, Friday’s air quality worsened as a result…
Author: Raja Zahid Khanzada
Is it possible that the dragons of Westeros will finally be seen on screen? The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline, two industry publications, reported on Thursday that at least one Game of Thrones movie is still in the very early stages of production. During its eight-season run from 2011 to 2019, the original HBO Game of Thrones television show became a global cultural phenomenon, attracting huge audiences and a record 59 Emmy Awards. The popular television series based on George R.R. Martin’s fantasy novel A Song of Ice and Fire has already produced the TV spinoff House of the Dragon, and…
Pakistan nad Qatar :During his official visit, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif talked about Pakistan as a good place to invest in a meeting with the Qatar Businessmen Association (QBA) delegation on Friday. The prime minister paid an official two-day visit to Doha at the invitation of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir of Qatar, after securing $600 million in investment pledges during his trip to Saudi Arabia. PM Shehbaz invited Qatari counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani to a “very extensive and productive” meeting on Thursday, inviting investors to investigate Pakistan’s various economic sectors. In addition, he…
Pakistan According to data released on Friday by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), Pakistan’s annual consumer price index inflation rate was 7.2% in October, up from 6.9% in September. In anticipation of a meeting of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP)’s Monetary Policy Committee next week to review the policy rate, which currently stands at 17.5 percent, the reading confirmed months of easing inflation, which reached a historic high of 38 percent in the previous year and was at 26.8 percent in October 2023. In order to achieve the objective of bringing inflation down to the medium-term target of…
European traders said on Friday that the lowest price offered in the international tender by Indonesia’s state purchasing agency Bulog to purchase approximately 500,000 metric tons of rice was $479 per tonne cost and freight (c&f) for rice that was expected to come from Pakistan. It was reported that the lowest offer was made for 26,000 tonnes. Traders stated that price negotiations are anticipated to continue in the coming days and that no purchase has yet been reported. Next week, a decision is expected. The assessments reflected in the reports come from traders, and additional estimates of prices and volumes…
Last weekend, the final episode of Zard Patton Ka Bunn aired. It marked the end of an underrated journey that was directed by Saife Hassan and written by Mustafa Afridi. The drama wasn’t your typical romance story; rather, it was a thoughtful look at the difficulties that women in Pakistan face that are rarely discussed so sensitively on television. Zard Patton Ka Bunn is rooted in everyday struggles, aiming to shed light on systemic issues like gender inequality, barriers to education, child labor, and overpopulation, with patriarchy being the overarching theme, in contrast to Mustafa and Sharjeena’s romance in Kabhi…
During the beauty pageant competition Miss Grand International 2024, which took place last week in Bangkok, contestants from India and Pakistan formed a strong bond. The winner of the competition, Punjab’s Jalandhar Rachel Gupta, wrote a touching letter to her “Punjabi sister,” Roma, to express her love for her. India’s Rachel Gupta wrote, “Borders may keep us apart, but they cannot separate the bond we share.” Rachel wrote in an Instagram post: Roma, when I think of your bravery and grace, my pride soars. It has been a blessing to compete with you, like finding a new home away from…
NEW YORK (AP) — A month after supporting Trump at a rally, Puerto Rican reggaeton singer Nicky Jam has withdrew his endorsement of the 2024 presidential candidate. The comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who referred to Puerto Rico as “garbage” in front of a packed Trump rally in New York, appears to have been the trigger. In a video statement that was uploaded to his official Instagram page, Jam said in Spanish, “The reason why I supported Donald Trump was because I thought he was the best for the economy in the United States, where many Latinos live, many of us Latinos…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman in Los Angeles has filed a lawsuit claiming that Metro Boomin, a producer nominated for a Grammy who has collaborated with some of the most prominent figures in hip-hop and R&B, raped her in 2016 and caused her to become pregnant. The producer’s lawyer claims that the allegations are untrue and described the lawsuit that was filed on Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court as “a pure shakedown.” In the lawsuit, 38-year-old Vanessa LeMaistre claims that following the death of her 9-month-old son, she became friends with Metro Boomin, whose real name is Leland…
ISLAMABAD: The government is being urged to renegotiate macroeconomic indicator targets with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in light of falling imports and a sharp decline in inflation in order to lessen the tax burden on the salaried class and the corporate sector and increase economic activity. The first economic review under the 37-month, $7 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) will be carried out by the IMF team when they visit Islamabad next month. Inflation, large-scale manufacturing, and imports have all changed significantly as a result of falling global commodity prices, necessitating significant revisions to all key indicators. According to…
